Jonathan Stray

Jonathan Stray is a computational journalist at Columbia University, where he teaches the dual masters degree in computer science and journalism and leads the development of Workbench, an integrated tool for data journalism. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Foreign Policy and ProPublica. He was formerly the Interactive Technology Editor at the Associated Press, a freelance reporter in Hong Kong, and a graphics algorithm designer for Adobe Systems.

• Designing Recommender Systems to Depolarize (2022) Paper
• Building Human Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis (2023) Paper
• Overview: The Design, Adoption, and Analysis of a Visual Document Mining Tool for Investigative Journalists (2014) Paper